If you are within ear-shot of the Georgia Bulldogs radio broadcast area March 7th, tune into the Bulldogs broadcast of the Kentucky/Georgia game in Athens. If you are and do, you will hear the familiar voice, familiar if you grew up with 1980's TBS wrestling, Tony Schiavone.
WCW, and major pro wrestling, left Atlanta in 2001, but ol' Tony stuck around and returned to broadcasting what brought him to the world of pro wrestling back in Charlotte for Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984: Minor League Baseball and College Sports. Schiavone calls the action for Georgia football and basketball, and spends his summer's calling the action for one of the Atlanta Braves affiliates.
However, Schivone comes off as somebody who is either bitter about how things in WCW went down, or somebody who is embarrassed to have been in the wrestling business any time he has been asked about the profession and his days in it since he left it. (Aside from his one time appearance in TNA, where he tried to be 'edgy'. Didn't work.)
But, for what it's worth, we dug Schivone, even though in the later days of WCW, he generally lampooned and ridiculed for his performance on the mic.
He did have a penchant for saying that every night was the "greatest night in the history of professional wrestling" or a variation of it with ' This is the most important night in the history of WCW" , no matter how much we already knew at home it wasn't going to be.
And, "Hulk Hogan, you can go to hell."
We must really like Schivone, because for some odd reason this is at least the second time we have posted about him on the site.
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